Re: <nettime> Interview with the Search Engine

[Dave Prager <dave_prager@yahoo.com>]

Continuing the AI thread, unclestu.com presents:

Dave Prager's Interview with a Random Quote Generator.



DP:   Thanks for meeting with me today.

RCG:  “Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.”
      - Mark Twain

DP:   So how long have you been in the random quotating 
      business?

RCG:  “When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
      - Joseph Heller

DP:   And what inspired you to get into the business in 
      the first place?

RCG:  “Life can only be understood backwards, but must be 
      lived forwards.”
      - Kierkegaard

DP:   Even though your father, and his father, and his 
      father's father, all had been apple farmers?  You 
      knew growing apples just weren't your calling?

RCG:  “You live in a deranged age, more deranged than 
      usual, because in spite of great scientific and 
      technological advances, man has not the faintest 
      idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
      - Walker Percy

DP:   But you eventually reconciled with your father. 

RCG:  “Imagination is the one weapon in the war against 
      reality.”
      - Jules de Gaultier

DP:   You've often said that the death of your mother 
      during child birth contributed to your deep love of 
      quotations.  Can you expand on that?

RCG:  “I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know 
      you’ll be the sun in somebody else’s sky, but why 
      can’t it be mine?”
      - Pearl Jam

DP:   You have been called everything from "a conceptual 
      artist" to "a raving lunatic."  Do you consider your 
      work to be art?  Do you consider yourself an artist?

RCG:  “You live in a deranged age, more deranged than 
      usual, because in spite of great scientific and 
      technological advances, man has not the faintest 
      idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
       - Walker Percy

DP:   Your critique on Fredrich Nietzsche's "Beyond Good 
      and Evil" has become required reading at colleges 
      around the country.  Why do you think that 
      particular work resonates so well with young 
      intellectuals?

RCG:  “Who gossips to you will gossip of you.”
      - Turkish proverb

DP:   One last question.  In his recent novel "Which Lie 
      Did I Tell: More Adventures in the Screen Trade," 
      William Goldman describes an evening in which you 
      and Mr. Goldman, along with Sean Penn and William 
      Defoe, consume stunning amounts of cocaine and ether 
      in an all-night blitz of booze, drugs, women and 
      destruction.  Do you regret your wild past?  Do you 
      still maintain that the fun you had was worth the 
      years you spent in rehab?

RCG:  “The more I study religions the more I am convinced 
      that man never worshipped anything but himself.”
      - Sir Richard F. Burton

DP:   Fascinating.  Sir, you truly are a national 
      treasure.  Thank you for your time.

RCG:  “If nice guys finish last, why am I finishing 
      last?”
      - David Nestor





Random Quote Generator can be accessed at http://jcclb.org/cgi-bin/quote.

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